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Leviathan and the air-pump Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life : including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Simon Schaffer
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Leviathan and the air-pump [electronic resource] : Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life : including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Simon Schaffer / Steven Shapin & Simon Schaffer.
ISBN
0691024324
9780691024325
Edition
1st Princeton pbk. print. with corrections.
Published
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1989, c1985.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 440 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2009. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
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Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life
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English
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August 28, 2020
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-426) and index.
Contents
Understanding experiment
Seeing and believing : the experimental production of pneumatic facts
Seeing double : Hobbes's politics of plenism before 1660
The trouble with experiment : Hobbes versus Boyle
Boyle's adversaries : experiment defended
Replication and its troubles : air-pumps in the 1660s
Natural philosophy and the restoration : interests in dispute
The polity of science : conclusions
Translation of Hobbes's Dialogus physicus.
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